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B ║ ║ V
E ║ ║ E
G ║ SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANAGER V1.0 ║ R
W ║ -------------------------- ║ S
A ║ EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC. (C)1993 ║ I
R ║ ║ O
E ║─────────────────────────────────────║ N
║ MIDLAKE PO BOX 48095 ║
║ CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA ║
║ T2X-3C0 ║
║ ║
║ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WORLDWIDE ║
║ ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════╝
page 2
LEGALS
THIS PRODUCT IS "AS IS" EXORDIA INC MAKES NO WARRENTY OF ANY KIND
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRENTIES OF
MECHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICILAR PURPOSE.
SYSYEM REQUIREMENTS
PC XT/AT
EGA/VGA COLOR MONITOR (VGA MONO)
HARD DRIVE
( MAY RUN ON CGA WE HAVEN'T TRIED IT LET US KNOW)
BEGWARE
A NEW CONCEPT ( OR AN OLD ONE)
WE HERE AT EXORDIA WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE NEW AND BETTER CHEAP
UTILITIES. THEY ARE CALLED CHEAP UTILITIES BECAUSE OF WHAT WE
ASK FOR IN RETURN. ON THE STANDARD SHAREWARE ISSUE WE WOULD HAVE
TO ASK YOU TO REGISTER AND THE KEEP A DATABASE OF REGISTERED USERS
ISSUE UPDATES AND OTHER TIME CONSUMING STUFF LIKE THAT. (WE'RE LAZY)
WE DECIDED THAT IF YOU LIKED OUR PRODUCT, YOU MIGHT SEND US A COUPLE
OF BUCKS FOR OUR EFFORTS. LET'S SAY $2.00 ( ANY DONATION WILL BE
ACCEPTED).THUS IS BORN -CHEAP UTILITIES-. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO
MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU WANT / GIVE IT TO FRIENDS /BUT NOT TO
SELL IT. WE GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO USE IT FOREVER, BASICALLY FOR
FREE.(SHAREWARE VENDORS MUST GET WRITTEN PERMISSION TO INCLUDE
THIS OR ANY OF OUR UTILITIES/PROGRAMS IN THIER CATALOGS ETC)
IF YOU WANT A VERSION OF THIS PROGRAM WITHOUT THE BEGWARE SCREENS
THEN SEND US $7.00 INCLUDES SHIPPING/HANDLING AND YOUR CHOICE
OF A 3 1/2 OR 5 1/4 DISK ( WE WILL INCLUDE MORE CHEAP UTILITIES
IF AVAILABLE WITH YOUR DISK).
REMEMBER THAT IF YOU SEND US ANYTHING YOU WILL THEN BE CONSIDERED
A REGISTERED USER.( EVEN INCLUDES SENDING US A NOTE TELLING US
WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE PROGRAM. PLEASE INCLUDE THE PROGRAM
NAME AND VERSION #............
page 3
HOW TO INSTALL:
THE PROGRAM MUST BE PUT IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF YOUR HARD DRIVE (
MUST BE THE BOOT DRIVE USUALLY DRIVE C:
type COPY A:*.* C:\ OR COPY B:*.* C:\ IF YOU RECEIVED THIS ON A FLOPPY
DISK AND THE PROGRAM WAS NOT COMPRESSED.
IF THE PROGRAM IS COMPRESSED BY A COMPRESSION UTILITY LIKE PKZIP THEN
YOU CAN UNZIP THE PROGRAM TO THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF C:
type PKUNZIP REBOOTER.ZIP C:\ ( or whatever filename was used ex REBTV1.ZIP)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
THAT WAS THE EASY PART NOW ON TO THE HARD PART
THIS PROGRAM USES 7 DIFFERENT CONFIG.SYS AND 7 DIFFERENT AUTOEXEC.BAT
FILES TO MANAGE THE CHANGES AND REBOOT CONFIGURATIONS. THAT MEANS THAT YOU
HAVE TO WRITE THE 14 FILES TO MATCH YOUR NEEDS. WE SUGGEST THAT YOU SAVE YOUR
ORIGINAL CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO
THEM AT A LATER DATE. ALSO THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS IS TO COPY THEM INTO THE
FIRST CONFIGURATION LIKE THIS.
type COPY CONFIG.SYS CONFIG.1
type COPY AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTO.1
TO CHANGE THE REST OF THE FILES YOU WILL NEED A WORD PROCESSOR OR
SMALL EDITOR THAT IS CAPABLE OF WRITING PURE ASC11 TEXT FILES. ( MOST
WORDPROCESSORS USE SPECIAL CODES IMBEDDED IN THE FILES SO THEY WILL NOT WORK
CORRECTLY.
THE FILE NAMES ARE AS FOLLOWS AND MUST REMAIN THE SAME NAME FOR THE PROGRAM TO
WORK. (CHANGING THE FILE NAMES WILL CAUSE A FILE NOT FOUND ERROR) AS WELL AS
THE FILE MUST BE KEPT IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF C: DRIVE FOR THEM TO WORK
BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE PROGRAM LOOKS FOR THEM.
CONFIG.1 AUTO.1
CONFIG.2 AUTO.2
CONFIG.3 AUTO.3
CONFIG.4 AUTO.4
CONFIG.5 AUTO.5
CONFIG.6 AUTO.6
CONFIG.7 AUTO.7
ALL THE FILES ARE BASICALLY EMPTY EXCEPT FOR CONFIG.1 & AUTO.1 WHICH CONTAIN A
SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT
( ALL OTHERS CONTAIN A REM STATEMENT TELLING YOU WHICH ONE IT IS)
START: type REBOOTER at the dos prompt
page 4
MAIN MENU:
AFTER THE BEGWARE SCREENS COME UP A MAIN MENU SCREEN WILL APPEAR.
YOU WILL HAVE A CHOICE OF 7 DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS, DENOTED BY CONFIG 1
THRU SEVEN. THESE WILL CHANGE BOTH CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT. AS WELL THERE
IS AN OPTION TO QUIT WITHOUT REBOOTING OR VIEW FILES. YOU MUST PICK A
CONFIGURATION TO PROCEED TO THE REBOOT MENU.
CHOOSE ONE OF THE OPTIONS BY PRESSING THE CORRESONDING KEY PROCEEDING
THE OPTION.
IF YOU PICKED A CONGIGURATION THEN THE REBOOT MENU WILL COME UP
IF YOU PICKED VIEW FILES THEN THE FIRST VIEW FILE MENU WILL COME UP
IF YOU PICKED QUIT WITH NOREBOOT THEN YOU WILL EXIT THE PROGRAM
(NOTE) IF YOU CHANGED A CONFIGURATION IT WILL NOT BE ACTIVE UNLESS YOU
REBOOT THE MACHINE
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
REBOOT MENU:
GIVES YOU SIX OPTIONS, THREE WILL RETURN YOU TO OTHER MENUS. THE
OTHER THREE CONTROL THE REBOOT.
REBOOT OPTION WILL REBOOT THE MACHINE AND LOAD IN THE NEW
CONFIGURATION. YOU MUST HAVE PATIENCE BECAUSE SOME MACHINES TAKE A FEW SECONDS
TO START THIER REBOOT SEQUENCE.. ( MINE TAKES A FULL 5 SECONDS TO GET THE
REBOOT UNDER WAY.... OTHER REBOOT ALMOST RIGHT AWAY)
REBOOT WITH COPROCESSOR WILL POPUP AN INFO SCREEN AND ASK YOU TO
MANUALLY REBOOT THE MACHINE BY PRESSING RESET OR JUST TURN THE MACHINE OFF
THEN ON AGAIN. WE'VE INCLUDED THIS OPTION BECAUSE SOME COPROCESSORS CREATE A
CONFLICT AND HANG THE MACHINE INSTEAD OF REBOOTING IT. THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IF
THIS HAPPENS TO YOUR MACHINE IS TRY A REGULAR REBOOT (OPTION A) AND SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.
QUIT NO REBOOT WILL DROP YOU TO DOS
NOTE; TO HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS MENU A COFIGURATION HAS BEEN PICKED AND THE FILES
HAVE ALREADY BEEN CHANGED SO NO MATTER HOW YOU REBOOT THE MACHINE THE NEW
CONFIGURATION WILL BE ACTIVE.
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VIEW MENU 1:
THIS WILL GIVE YOU THE CHANCE TO VIEW THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVEN
DIFFERENT CONFIG.SYS FILES. PICK THE LETTER CORRESPONDING TO THE ONE YOU WISH
TO LOOK AT.
VIEW AUTOEXEC'S WILL SEND YOU INTO VIEW MENU 2 TO LOOK AT THE
AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES
MAIN MENU OPTION WILL SEND YOU BACK TO THE MAIN MENU
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - -
VIEW MENU 2 IS THE SAME AS ABOVE EXCEPT YOU CAN VIEW THE AUTOEXEC'
OR RETURN TO VIEW MENU 1 / MAIN MENU
NOTE:
THESE VIEW FUCTIONS MAKE USE OF THE DOS MORE COMMAND TO DISPLAY FILES
LARGER THAN 24 LINES . IF IT IS NOT ON YOUR PATH YOU MAY GET AN ERROR. CORRECT
THIS BY PUTTING THE FILE CALLED MORE.COM or MORE.EXE (DEPENDING ON DOS
VERSION) IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF C:\ OR IN A DIRECTORY ON YOUR PATH
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
page 5
EXAMPLE SCREENS
╔═════════════════╗ ╔══════════════╗
║BEGWARE A NEW ║ ║WE LET YOU USE║
║CONCEPT IN ║ ║ OUR UTILITIES║
║SHAREWARE ║───────────────────────────────────────║FOR FREE......║
╚═════════════════╝ ╚══════════════╝██
│ EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC │██
│ MIDLAKE PO BOX 48095 │██
│ CALGARY AB. T2X 3C0 │██
│ (403)-244-1113 OR 254-9847 │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ ANOTHER CHEAP UTILITY │██
│ USING THE BEGWARE CONCEPT │██
╔═════════════════╗ ╔══════════════╗██
║WITH A LIMITED ║ ║AND NOW FOR THE██
║LICENCE TO USE ║ ║BEG PART ║██
║BUT NOT SELL ║───────────────────────────────────────║ ║██
║ ║█████████████████████████████████████╔═══════════════════╗
║ ║ ║ BEGWARE ║
╚═════════════════╝ ║ SCREEN ║
║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │██
│ B E G W A R E │██
│ A NEW SHAREWARE CONCEPT │██
│ WE HOPE YOU LIKE IT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL USE AND LIKE OUR PROGRAMS │██
│ SO MUCH THAT YOU WILL SEND US A FEW BUCKS │██
│ LETS SAY A WHOLE $2.00 (TWO DOLLARS) │██
│ FOR THAT $2.00 YOU LL RECEIVE PIECE OF MIND │██
│ AND THE KNOWING THAT WE ARE GRATEFUL AND WE WILL │██
│ MAKE MORE CHEAP UTILITIES FOR YOU TO USE │██
│ SEND THE $2.00 TO OUR ADDRESS IN THE DOCUMENTATION │██
│ │██
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘██
███████████████████████████████████████████████████╔═══════════════════╗
║ BEGWARE ║
║ DESCRIPTION ║
╚═══════════════════╝
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ M U L T I P L E S Y S T E M S E T U P │██
│ COPYRIGHT 1993 EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC. │██
│ MAIN MENU- select CONFIGURATION or VIEW FILES │██
│ │██
│ (A) CONFIG 1 (B) CONFIG 2 │██
│ (C) CONFIG 3 (D) CONFIG 4 │██
│ (E) CONFIG 5 (F) CONFIG 6 │██
│ (G) CONFIG 7 (H) VIEW FILES │██
│ (I) EXIT PROGRAM WITHOUT REBOOTING │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ SELECT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ ╔═══════════════════╗
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────║ MAIN MENU ║
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
page 7
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ M U L T I P L E S Y S T E M S E T U P │██
│ COPYRIGHT 1993 EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC. │██
│ VIEW MENU-1 CONFIGS │██
│ │██
│ (A) CONFIG 1 (B) CONFIG 2 │██
│ (C) CONFIG 3 (D) CONFIG 4 │██
│ (E) CONFIG 5 (F) CONFIG 6 │██
│ (G) CONFIG 7 (H) VIEW AUTOEXES │██
│ (I) RETURN TO MAIN MENU │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ SELECT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ ╔═══════════════════╗
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────║ VIEW MENU-1 ║
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████║ SCREEN ║
╚═══════════════════╝
lastdrive=z
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS OLDDV RAM
dos=high,umb
FILES=100
BUFFERS=40, /x
DEVICE=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:1 c:\DOS\ansi.sys
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\ST\STACKER.COM /EMS /P=9 C:\STACVOL.000
stacks=0,0
REM install=c:\qemm\loadhi.com /tsr /r:1 c:\dos\share.exe
╔═══════════════════╗
║ SAMPLE CONFIG.1 ║
ANY KEY TO CONTINUE ║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ M U L T I P L E S Y S T E M S E T U P │██
│ COPYRIGHT 1993 EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC. │██
│ VIEW MENU-2 AUTOEXES │██
│ │██
│ (A) AUTO 1 (B) AUTO 2 │██
│ (C) AUTO 3 (D) AUTO 4 │██
│ (E) AUTO 5 (F) AUTO 6 │██
│ (G) AUTO 7 (H) CONFIG MENU │██
│ (I) RETURN TO MAIN MENU │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ SELECT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ ╔═══════════════════╗
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────║ VIEW MENU 2 ║
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
ECHO OFF
CLS
C:
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT$p$g
rem set mouse=C:
rem C:\mouse
PATH=c:\qemm;C:\DOS;c:\;c:\et;c:\zip;d:\QMODEM;d:\pcw4;c:\st;c:\qb45;c:\pb;
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
rem c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 C:\mouse.COM /Y
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:3 smax
rem set blaster=a220 i7 d1 t2
╔═══════════════════╗
║ SAMPLE AUTO.1 ║
║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
page 9
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ M U L T I P L E S Y S T E M S E T U P │██
│ COPYRIGHT 1993 EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC. │██
│ VIEW MENU-2 AUTOEXES │██
│ │██
│ (A) REBOOT SYSTEM (B) REBOOT WITH COPROCESSOR │██
│ (C) MAIN MENU (D) VIEW CONFIG MENU │██
│ (E) VIEW AUTO MENU (F) EXIT NO REBOOT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ SELECT │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ │██
│ ╔═══════════════════╗
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────║ REBOOT MENU ║
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████║ ║
╚═══════════════════╝
page 10
WELL THAT'S ABOUT IT FOR THIS UTILITY EXCEPT FOR A FEW NOTES
1) The reboot fuction may not work if you have a coprocessor and
you may have to use a manual reboot
2) We may add alot of different options to this program as long as
there is customer support for it. Write to us and let us know
what you'd like to see
3) Possible additions are 1)create configuration files on the fly
2)more than 7 configurations
3)change contents of any file for temp purposes
4)view current autoexec and config.sys
5)create menu for programs and auto reboot
------------------------------------------------
If you have comment or suggestion please write to us. Also if this program
will not run properly on your machine please write and give us as much
information as possible ie tsr,s in the background/dos ver#/type and make of
your machine. PLEASE INCLUDE NAME OF PROGRAM AND VERSION NUMBER
To send us a donation ($2.00) or to get the utility without the BEGWARE
SCREENS ($7.00) OR NOTES OR COMMENTS send them to
EXORDIA ENTERPRISES INC.
MIDLAKE PO BOX 48095
CALGARY, ALBERTA
CANADA
T2X 3C0
3) All documentation and support files and program files must be included
if you give make copies and give them away, they must remain unaltered.
Files fo this UTILITY ( SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANAGER V1.0 )
are as follows
REBOOTER.EXE -----main program
REBOOTER.DOC -----documentation text form
READBOOT.COM -----documentation in a self reading form